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Community Stories
Fort Berthold
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Friends and family say farewell to Melvin Walker (Black Eagle), a Nuptadi/ Hidatsa cowboy. A team and wagon take the casket to the cemetery, accompanied by Edwin Benson, senior pallbearer, and Jim Johnson of Myron Johnson American Legion Post, July 1990.
Photograph by c.a. Wolf Eyes |
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Linda Baker, a full-time teacher, has worked all her life with her father and brothers on their cow-calf operation. Linda lives just east of Mandaree on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Photograph by Tillie Walker, 1997 |
Greta White Calfe, Hidatsa/Sahnish, from White Shield, feeding her calves. Greta has been a widow for many years now. Although a mother and full-time teacher, she and her daughter operated a farm and cattle ranch on the Fort Berthold Reservation. She has been named Indian Teacher of the Year and has a wall of prize-winning rodeo ribbons.
Photograph by Gail Baker |
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